8362 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 37 / Monday, February 26, 2007 / Notices 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions concerning the Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) 

should be addressed to Mr. Alan W. 

Bennett at: U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, PM–RS, P.O. Box 60267, 

New Orleans, LA 70160–0267, phone 

(504) 862–2516, fax number (504) 862–

2088 or by e-mail at 

alan.w.bennett@mvn02.usace.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. Proposed Action. The proposed 

action would replace or modify and 

incorporate certain non-Federal levees 

on the west bank of the Mississippi 

River in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana 

into the existing New Orleans to Venice 

hurricane protection project. The 

proposed project study area includes the 

west bank of the Mississippi River, 

starting near the community of Oakville 

to the north and ending at St. Jude to the 

south. The New Orleans to Venice 

hurricane protection project was 

authorized by Public Law 87–874, as 

amended. Under this authority, the U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers constructed a 

hurricane protection levee system 

extending along a protion of the west 

bank of the Mississippi River. This SEIS 

is being prepared as a third 

supplemental to the July 1974 final EIS, 

‘‘New Orleans to Venice, Louisiana, 

Hurricane Protection Project’’, filed with 

the Council on Environmental Quality 

on January 6, 1975. 

The existing federally authorized 

hurricane protection system does not 

provide continuous protection from 

Belle Chasse to Venice. Specifically, 

approximately 34 miles of existing nonFederal levees in Plaquemines Parish do 

not provide hurricane and storm 

damage reduction protection to the 

authorized level of the New Orleans to 

Venice hurricane protection project. 

This condition exposes residents and 

businesses in several west bank 

communities and the hurricane 

evacuation route, Louisiana Highway 

23, to a higher potential for flooding in 

the event of a storm or hurricane. 

Engineering, economic, and 

environmental analysis would be used 

to determine the most cost effective 

plan, which would provide for the 

greatest overall public benefit. 

2. Alternatives. Several levee 

alignments are being investigated to 

protect these communities, businesses, 

the hurricane evacuation route, and to 

avoid wetland impacts. In addition, 

non-structural alternatives such as 

relocations or raising homes and 

businesses are also being developed and 

evaluated. Incremental analysis of costs 

and benefits for different reaches of the 

levee alignments would also be 

conducted. Various protection levels for 

the levee alignments would also be 

investigated. 

3. Scoping. Scoping is the process for 

determining the scope of alternatives 

and significant issues to be addressed in 

the SEIS. A notice requesting scoping 

comments will be sent to affected 

Federal, State, and local agencies, 

affected Indian tribes, and all interested 

parties requesting their input on 

alternatives and issues to be evaluated 

in the SEIS. The notice will also notify 

interested parties of public scoping 

meetings that will be held in the local 

area. Notices will also be sent to local 

news media. All interested parties are 

invited to comment at this time, and 

anyone interested in this study should 

request to be included in the study 

mailing list. 

Two public scoping meetings will be 

held in March 2007. The meetings will 

be held in the vicinity of Belle Chasse 

and West Pointe a la Hache. Additional 

meetings could be held, depending 

upon interest and if it is determined that 

further public coordination is 

warranted. 

4. Significant Issues. The tentative list 

of resources and issues to be evaluated 

in the SEIS includes tidal wetlands 

(marshes and swamps), aquatic 

resources, commercial and recreational 

fisheries, wildlife resources, essential 

fish habitat, water quality, air quality, 

threatened and endangered species, 

recreation resources, and cultural 

resources. Socioeconomic items to be 

evaluated in the SEIS include hurricane 

and flood protection, business and 

industrial activity, employment, land 

use, property values, public/community 

facilities and services, tax revenues, 

population, community and regional 

growth, transportation, housing, 

community cohesion, and noise. 

5. Environmental Consultation and 

Review. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service (USFWS) will be assisting in the 

documentation of existing conditions 

and assessment of effects of project 

alternatives through Fish and Wildlife 

Coordination Act consultation 

procedures. The USFWS will provide a 

Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act 

report. Consultation will be 

accomplished with the USFWS and the 

National Marine Fisheries Service 

(NMFS) concerning threatened and 

endangered species and their critical 

habitat. The NMFS will be consulted on 

the effects of this proposed action on 

essential fish habitat. The draft SEIS or 

a notice of its availability will be 

distributed to all interested agencies, 

organizations, and individuals. 

6. Estimated Date of Availability. The 

earliest that the draft SEIS is expected 

to be available is in spring 2008. 

Dated: February 16, 2007. 

Richard P. Wagenaar, 

Colonel, U.S. Army, District Commander. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of International Regimes and 

Agreements; Proposed Subsequent 

Arrangement 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed subsequent 

arrangement. 

SUMMARY: This notice is being issued 

under the authority of section 131 of the 

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended 

(42 U.S.C. 2160). The Department is 

providing notice of a proposed 

‘‘subsequent arrangement’’ under the 

Agreement for Cooperation in the 

Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy 

between the United States and the 

European Atomic Energy Community 

(Euratom) and the Agreement for 

Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of 

Nuclear Energy between the United 

States and Canada. 

This subsequent arrangement 

concerns the retransfer of 846,126 kg of 

Natural UO3 (82.7% U), containing 

700,000 kg of Uranium. This material 

will be retransferred from Cameco 

Corporation, Canada, to Springfields 

Fuels Ltd., United Kingdom for ultimate 

use as nuclear power reactor fuel by 

Electric Power Development Company 

Ltd., Japan. Springfields Fuels Ltd. is 

authorized to receive nuclear material 

pursuant to the U.S.-Euratom 

Agreement for Cooperation. 

In accordance with section 131 of the 

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 

we have determined that this 

subsequent arrangement will not be 

inimical to the common defense and 

security. 

This subsequent arrangement will 

take effect no sooner than fifteen days 

after the date of publication of this 

notice. 

Dated: February 20, 2007. 

For the Department of Energy. 

Anatoli Welihozkiy, 

Acting Director, Office of International 

Regimes and Agreements. 

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